Philippe Cam

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Philippe Cam is a French musician and DJ whose works can largely be assigned to ambient and minimal techno .

Life

Philippe Cam first worked as a seaman and later as a dock worker in the Port du Havre . He later turned to producing experimental rock music before attending a concert by composer Bernard Parmegiani , which sparked his interest in electronic music. He moved to Belgium and attended the Conservatories in Mons and Brussels . The strict curriculum clashed with his more self-taught approach. In the early 1990s he appeared as a DJ at Club Sud in Brussels . He also composed music for cinema, theater and contemporary dance. For the choreographer Pierre Droulers he composed the music for his pieces De l'Air et du Vent (1996) and Multum In Parvo (1998).

Around 1999 he turned increasingly to techno . From the year 2000, Cam released several singles on Riley Reinhold's label Traum Schallplatten , which were particularly noticeable for their driving and hypnotic melodies. In 2001 these singles were finally summarized as the compilation album Balance and also released on Traum Schallplatten. After the death of a parent and the birth of his first child, Cam initially retired from production work. In 2006, the Canadian label Musique Risquée released the single Somewhere Between Here and There , which also contained remixes of Akufen and Deadbeat . After that, he did not release new material until 2019 with the album Rotterdam .

Cam lives in Nîmes in the south of France .

Discography (selection)

Albums

  • 2001: Balance (compilation album; dream records )
  • 2019: Rotterdam (Dream Records)

Singles

  • 2000: Caddie's Day / Western (Dream Records)
  • 2000: Mixte / Karine (dream records)
  • 2000: Cologne / LFO Drive (dream records)
  • 2002: Canadians! / Gisèle (dream records)
  • 2006: Somewhere Between Here and There (Musique Risquée)

Filmography

composer

  • 1993: The Motorcycle Girl (short film)
  • 2006: Time Is Working Around Rotterdam (short film)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f Jean-Yves Leloup: Philippe Cam: l'art de l'apesanteur . In: globaltechno.wordpress.com from May 12, 2008.
  2. ↑ Philippe Cam - Rotterdam - Dream V233 . In: traumschallplatten.de, accessed on April 13, 2020.
  3. ↑ Jan-Peter Wulf: Exclusive premiere: Philippe Cam - Rotterdam . In: dasfilter.com of September 4, 2019.
personal data
SURNAME Cam, Philippe
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French musician and DJ
DATE OF BIRTH 20th century